Deputies, city police, witnesses and a police intelligence unit pieced together an alleged sequence that left three women wounded.
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — What began as separate emergency calls at a home, a fast-food restaurant and a grocery store became one investigation after authorities linked three wounded women, two attempted carjackings and a fleeing vehicle to the same 52-year-old Fayetteville man.
Police ultimately arrested Robert Page after the Aug. 30 shootings, saying witness information and the Fayetteville Police Department’s Crime Information Center helped officers determine where he had gone after the final attack. Cumberland County District Attorney Billy West said Page surrendered without incident once police located him. By then, sheriff’s deputies and city officers were working from three scenes spread across the Fayetteville area, each carrying a different part of the alleged sequence. The case illustrates how an investigation that begins as disconnected calls can quickly become a single timeline when locations, vehicles, witnesses and a suspect’s movements overlap.
The law enforcement response started with the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office at about 7:03 a.m. Deputies were sent to the 700 block of Messenger Street after a 911 call reporting a shooting. They found a woman with a gunshot wound, but the suspected shooter was gone. Warrants later identified the woman as Page’s girlfriend, according to local reporting. Prosecutors alleged that Page took her vehicle and left the area. That vehicle became an important link as investigators reconstructed what happened next, while the woman was taken for medical treatment and deputies began examining what authorities described as a domestic incident.
Only minutes later, a different agency received a different kind of call. At about 7:12 a.m., Fayetteville police responded to the Hardee’s on Ramsey Street for a reported shooting and attempted carjacking. Officers found another wounded woman. Prosecutors later said Page had tried to take a vehicle occupied by a couple and shot the woman during the encounter. The accused man was again gone by the time police arrived. At that stage, officers were dealing with a public parking-lot shooting while sheriff’s deputies were investigating an earlier shooting at a residence, but authorities would soon identify an alleged connection between the two.
The third call took police to a Food Lion parking lot on McArthur Road. Officers found another woman suffering from a gunshot wound after what investigators described as another attempted carjacking. Her family identified her as 24-year-old Isabella “Izzy” Dolin. Unlike the first victim, Dolin had no known relationship with Page, according to the public accounts. Her sister, Leighanna Bullard, said Dolin had stopped for coffee before work when an unfamiliar man demanded her vehicle, pushed her and shot her. Bullard said the man attempted to operate Dolin’s car but failed to get it started before leaving.
That final scene generated information that extended beyond physical evidence. Derrick Hicks, a bystander, told WRAL that he approached after seeing Dolin injured and observed the man at the scene depart as he came closer. Hicks remained with Dolin and helped her until emergency medical personnel arrived. His account placed a witness near the end of the alleged sequence and gave police another source of information after the gunman had left. Dolin’s family later expressed gratitude for his actions, while Hicks said he regarded stopping to help an injured stranger as an ordinary response rather than a heroic act.
As those reports accumulated, investigators had to determine whether the same person could be responsible for all three events. The alleged use of the girlfriend’s vehicle after the Messenger Street shooting helped create a geographic and chronological connection to the later scenes. Police then drew on witnesses and the department’s Crime Information Center, according to ABC11, and located Page. West said Page surrendered without incident. Investigators also recovered a vehicle in the Ramsey Street area that authorities believed was connected with his movements. The arrest ended the immediate search but opened the more detailed work of assigning evidence and charges to each location.
The resulting prosecution crossed agency boundaries. Fayetteville police announced charges that included two counts of attempted first-degree murder, two counts of discharging a weapon into occupied property and two counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury. Other city charges included robbery with a dangerous weapon, attempted robbery with a dangerous weapon, possession of stolen goods or property and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The sheriff’s office handled allegations arising from the initial Messenger Street shooting. Because those matters were processed separately, early reports sometimes gave different charge totals without necessarily contradicting one another.
A judge later ordered Page held without bond during his initial court proceedings. Prosecutors used those proceedings to describe how they believed the events fit together, while the defense had not yet had a trial opportunity to challenge the full case publicly. Page remains presumed innocent unless the state proves the charges or he enters a plea. The reports reviewed for this article do not establish a final judgment. They also do not disclose every item of evidence investigators collected, meaning the public version of the case remains a summary of allegations rather than a complete presentation of what a jury might eventually hear.
The victims’ circumstances reinforce why investigators have been cautious about describing motive. West said the first shooting appeared to arise from a domestic incident involving Page and his girlfriend. He said the two women at the business locations appeared to have been in the wrong place at the wrong time rather than people connected to the accused man. The attempted vehicle thefts explain why authorities believe Page approached the later victims, but officials have not publicly stated why the encounters allegedly escalated to shootings. No verified report reviewed for this article establishes that Dolin or the Hardee’s victim had previously met Page.
Dolin’s recovery became the most publicly documented consequence of the shootings. WRAL reported that she was flown to UNC Medical Center, and her family said she would require reconstructive surgery. Her relatives described a long medical road after an attack that began during a routine morning errand. The woman shot at Hardee’s and Page’s girlfriend were also reported alive, and all three women were described as stable by Sunday night. Officials did not later release comparably detailed medical information about the other two women, leaving their subsequent recoveries largely private in the public record reviewed.
Another thread emerged when WRAL reported that court records described Page as a validated member of the Eight Trey Crips. The station also reported that his criminal history extended more than two decades. That background does not resolve the central question of motive. Former U.S. Attorney Michael Easley Jr. explained that gang validation reflects criteria indicating an ongoing association, but he said there was no basis from the information then available to declare that Page’s alleged conduct had been directed by a gang or committed for a gang’s benefit. Authorities had not publicly established such a connection, and treating the shootings as gang-directed without evidence would go beyond the verified record.
The case therefore remains defined by what investigators say they can connect and by what they still have not explained. They have alleged a path beginning at Messenger Street, continuing to the Hardee’s and ending at the Food Lion; they have identified the accused man, documented two attempted carjackings and filed serious felony charges. What has not been publicly established is a single motive joining the domestic shooting to the later attacks, a gang role in the events or a final court resolution. Those unknowns are separate from the documented fact that three women survived gunshot wounds and that Page was taken into custody after the final incident.
Reliable public reporting reviewed through Oct. 19 did not disclose a later conviction, acquittal, plea or dismissal in the case. Page was most recently reported held without bond as the separate investigations moved through the court system. The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office and Fayetteville police had each handled portions of the Aug. 30 events, while Dolin’s family said her recovery would continue well beyond the morning when a stop for coffee became part of a much larger criminal investigation.
Author note: Last updated October 19, 2026.